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Sick individuals and sick populations: 20 years later
2006
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
disease had none of the four factors. ...
N The relevance of Sick Individuals and Sick Populations to modern public health practice N The demonstration of how Rose's propositions have played out in the intervening 20 years. ...
seems interesting in terms of equity. 4 Prepayment and voluntary insurance schemes are not able to protect the worst off and most of the exemption systems have failed to protect the poorest. ...
doi:10.1136/jech.2005.042770
pmid:16614328
pmcid:PMC2563964
fatcat:isrder535bfitn26ap6r55xbhm
Sickness and Health
1992
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
of the day as well as providing authoritative descriptions of trends in parts of the health sector. ...
Indeed in 1989 a large mortality survey has been repeated together with a supplementary survey of the characteristics such as the one reported in the present volume. ...
doi:10.1136/jech.46.4.463
fatcat:s4dl2mbx55a4rfkbj5wyhutkwu
Don't be the "Fifth Guy": Risk, Responsibility, and the Rhetoric of Handwashing Campaigns
2017
Journal of Medical Humanities
In recent years, outbreaks such as H1N1 have prompted heightened efforts to manage the risk of infection. ...
^In this essay, I describe how the focus on personal responsibility for infection risk shapes the promotion of hand hygiene and other forms of illness etiquette. ...
Hand hygiene limits the spread of diarrheal and respiratory diseases, which are among the leading causes of child mortality in developing countries. 11 Children thus comprise a key audience for Global ...
doi:10.1007/s10912-017-9470-4
pmid:28853016
fatcat:sccs5rfnefggjjj5eiis3hu65e
Sick societies
2015
World Nutrition
Measuring causes of obesity, disease, health, well-being ...
The stepped approach to data collection in the private sector module of INFORMAS, starts with an assessment of the companies to be monitored in a particular country, and with the companies that pose the ...
Four of the impact modules -food provision, retail, prices, and promotion -lend themselves to 'environmental equity' indicators to check progress towards reducing diet-related health inequalities in countries ...
doaj:b21cfd908f034fe4a834eebcadfe5127
fatcat:vrybc4mbzzdbtfvqriopvmfahe
Healthy Doctors – Sick Medicine
2015
Professions and Professionalism
Doctors are among the healthiest segments of the population in western countries. Nevertheless, they complain strongly of stress and burnout. ...
This article looks at some of the central sociological literature on deprofessionalisation, particularly in a perspective of countervailing powers. ...
Krause finds that the decline in professional autonomy occurs in most of the professions and countries under study. ...
doi:10.7577/pp.989
fatcat:wsfp6dutbfcjlb2tqhtcqufhkm
Helping the sick doctor
1985
BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)
and trends in mortality from stroke in the community SIR,-The results of Dr Jaakko Tuomilehto and others (28 September, p 857) conflict with those reported from the Medical Research Council trial,' particularly ...
be the major contributor to changes in stroke mortality in North Karelian women. ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.291.6508.1575-b
fatcat:tdf72ewg3ngh3muslcf6jvxena
African horse sickness
2004
Veterinary Research
African horse sickness virus (AHSV) causes a non-contagious, infectious insect-borne disease of equids and is endemic in many areas of sub-Saharan Africa and possibly Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula. ...
The distribution of AHSV seems to be governed by a number of factors including the efficiency of control measures, the presence or absence of a long term vertebrate reservoir and, most importantly, the ...
The authors are grateful for the financial support. ...
doi:10.1051/vetres:2004021
pmid:15236676
fatcat:tu5qw6tqkbhylpabavzzkz5xna
Good times make you sick
2003
Journal of Health Economics
First, mortality could be procyclical while other aspects of poor health are not. ...
The negative health effects of economic expansions persist or accumulate over time, are larger for acute than chronic ailments, and occur despite a protective effect of income and a possible increase in ...
Instead, the results are sensitive to the choice of countries, time periods, and outcomes, with falling unemployment frequently being correlated with worse rather than better health. ...
doi:10.1016/s0167-6296(03)00041-9
pmid:12842319
fatcat:7aklq2nsyzdr7n2p5yvwipl3wa
Organisational downsizing, sickness absence, and mortality: 10-town prospective cohort study
2004
BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)
Conclusion Organisational downsizing may increase sickness absence and the risk of death from cardiovascular disease in employees who keep their jobs. ...
Objective To examine whether downsizing, the reduction of personnel in organisations, is a predictor of increased sickness absence and mortality among employees. ...
What is already known on this topic In the global economy, downsizing seems to be an increasingly important trend in industrialised countries The association between downsizing and sickness absence has ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.37972.496262.0d
pmid:14980982
pmcid:PMC381046
fatcat:yfhxmmlzrjg3ziw5bowfqlh4pu
Sickness absence due to low back pain
2003
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
, at least in Western countries. ...
Finally, Parodi et al commented that mortality might not be a good indicator of cancer risk. This general comment, of course, applies to all studies based on mortality. ...
doi:10.1136/oem.60.4.306
pmid:12660381
pmcid:PMC1740505
fatcat:adfyxyl2ejdm5e472jgobohoay
The Extent of Hospital Sickness
1958
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
Such factors vary between areas; hence what may be true of one area may not be true of another or of the country in general. The Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (H.I.P.E.) ...
Not much was done, however, in the way of relating the admissions to the population at risk. ...
areas in each of the four specialties of medicine, surgery, traumatic and orthopaedic surgery, and E.N.T. surgery. ...
doi:10.1136/jech.12.2.61
fatcat:2pw6kboyjzesbiqf3sorlfggza
Recent trends in certificated sickness absence
1972
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
During the late 1950s, the increase in sickness absence can be explained almost entirely in terms of changes in size and age structure of the population at risk, but since the early 1960s very little of ...
effective service and, if this condition is likely eventually to be met, a further six months on half pay, subject to a maximum of twelve months sick leave in a period of four years or less. ...
pmid:5035917
pmcid:PMC1643947
fatcat:n2ts7bewg5awjfey6rajg3gkay
Standards of Sickness Insurance: III
1915
Journal of Political Economy
The average mortality rate in this country is about i6 per i,ooo. ...
An insurance company operates on a basis of a certain mortality table. Risks are either accepted or not accepted. ...
fatcat:uvjpmvnft5cqxc5jvuzctax5um
Standards of Sickness Insurance: III
1915
Journal of Political Economy
The average mortality rate in this country is about 16 per 1,000. ...
An insurance company operates on a basis of a certain mortality table. Risks are either accepted or not accepted. ...
doi:10.1086/252662
fatcat:33asmpfv5nau7bu53vlncwzydm
Explaining socioeconomic differences in sickness absence: the Whitehall II Study
1993
BMJ (Clinical Research Edition)
More accurate measurement of the risk factors may explain some of the remaining differences in sickness absence but other factors, as yet unrecognised, are likely to be important. ...
These risk factors accounted for about one third of the grade differences in sickness absence. ...
Civil Service Central Monitoring Service and Dr Frank O'Hara; the Council of Civil Service Unions; and all participating civil servants. ...
doi:10.1136/bmj.306.6874.361
pmid:8461681
pmcid:PMC1676477
fatcat:pzazbl5ukndrlkpdvedhmm2hra
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